Big Tomato Butter Dish
I’ve mentioned Big Tomato Company mugs before and here’s another gem in their range. It’s a butter dish with the cheeky slogan butter wouldn’t melt.
A great item for any kitchen and a lovely gift for a grandparent, parent or auntie I’d say.
Poach Pods For Easy Poached Eggs
Simple, but brilliant. The flexible, silicone Poach Pods making poaching eggs so simple! The Poachpod allows you to float and poach an egg in boiling water like a lily pad on a pond. When the egg is ready, flip the non-stick pod inside out and gently push the perfectly domed shaped egg out.
You can also [...]
Teasmade Offers
The Teasmade might be the object of many a joke but it’s brewing up a bit of a comeback!
Yep, after many a year in the doldrums, the Teasmade started to make a comeback a couple of years ago when John Lewis sold the Micromark Teasmade (like the one pictured) at the rate of one an [...]
National Cupcake Week
It’s National Cupcake Week this week – in fact it ends tomorrow.
The Bakery Info site informs us that
“The aim of the week, held September 14-19 2009, is to draw customers’ attention to the many wonderful recipes and exotic toppings available for cupcakes and to tempt both new and existing customers to buy (at least) one [...]
Fruit Ball Bowls
Look closely at this squashed basket ball. Spot anything? Well, it’s not a ball it’s a ceramic fruit bowl or fruit ball as they’ve been called.
Novel isn’t it? I read about them in one of the Sunday papers where they pictured one full of fresh fruit. Obviously flat-bottomed so they can’t roll off the kitchen [...]
Giant Cupcake Tin
Mmmm this is an ideal present for me ‘cos I love cupcakes …well, actually I love all sorts of cakes.This giant cupcake tin not surprisingly makes a giant cupcake that you can share with friends and family. Or you could be a Mr Greedy and scoff the lot yourself
This cupcake tin might look [...]
Banana Guard
Right, you, at the back. Yes you, stop sniggering this instant!
Despite what you might be thinking, this isn’t just a great novelty gift idea, it’s a very practical and inexpensive plastic banana guard. John Lewis sell them so it’s all above board!
Designed by a Canadian ER doctor, who evidently suffered from squashed banana syndrome, this [...]
Chef’n Salt and Pepper Rabbits
These are a funny pair. If you haven’t guessed yet they are salt and pepper mills in the shape of rabbits …obvious now I know!
Imagine a rabbit’s head: the “face” is the container while the “ears” are a soft-grip grinding mechanism which you sqeeze to grind the salt or pepper – only one hand needed!
One [...]